Supreme Court’s Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Vows To Resist Pressure From ‘Liberals’ To Retire

[Purveyor]

By Joan Biskupic

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At age 80, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leader of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, says she is in excellent health, even lifting weights despite having cracked a pair of ribs again, and plans to stay several more years on the bench.

In a Reuters interview late on Tuesday, she vowed to resist any pressure to retire that might come from liberals who want to ensure that Democratic President Barack Obama can pick her successor before the November 2016 presidential election.

Ginsburg said she had fallen in the bathroom of her home in early May, sustaining the same injury she suffered last year near term’s end.

“I knew immediately what it was this time,” she said, adding that there was nothing to do but take pain killers and wait out the six weeks as her ribs healed. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said on Wednesday that the day after the May 2 incident, Ginsburg was examined at the Office of the Attending Physician at the Capitol and then went about her regular schedule.

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[Motown_Johnny]

1. Stevens stayed until he was 90

We just need to hold the White House in 2016 and hopefully people like Scalia will start to retire before any (R) has a chance to become President.

[elehhhhna]

2. call me ageist but 90? Sorry. Even the 1%ers on the USSC

surely lose some snap in their brains by 80. Probably sooner.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. 90

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Stevens

^snip^

John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from December 19, 1975, until his retirement on June 29, 2010.